After a few weeks of a wiggly tooth , Shepherd overcame some nerves and fear and let us pull his first baby tooth! Pull is a strong word; it was barely hanging on. Shepherd, you were very stoked when it came out and you saw it and your realized that you d overcome your fear. That was [ ]
To be topical for a moment, and therefore risk being boring, AI could never find the motivation to summon intelligence to produce something like this.
I thought this was an incredible example of how the world of signs and simulacra is impossible to separate from reality. They are on in the same, working on, and overlapping on, one another always. This has always happened in news and media of course, but the ad reads on podcasts are so authentic – [ ]
My focus has become excellence and trying hard through running. I m focused on the marathon and working on it as a project for the next few years. I m 33 and I figure that if I m going to go for it, now is the time for the marathon. I think that after a few years I [ ]
His documentaries are getting me. Resonating with themes of Baudrillard and mass media and other quite fascinating and unfortunate themes. This one is all the same.
Perhaps only in anticipation, or in retrospect, is this a useful way of thinking, but here it goes: Very important periods of time in one s life will end and be thought of as not so important; not unimportant, but just that one will think, how interesting that I thought that would be the most important [ ]
Read this piece in Compact Magazine from James Vaughn, a historian, at the University of Chicago and find myself quite amazed by the unique historical event that is the 250th anniversary of The United States. The Persian and Roman empires have been in the cultural psyche recently, because America has warred with both Iran and [ ]
We dropped Shepherd off at Rockmont last Sunday, and for all we know he s having a great time! This was such a big part of my early adulthood and start to life; where I made great friends, great strides in my life s formation, and where I met and fell in love with Sadie. So, to [ ]
A writer – and, I believe, generally all persons – must think that whatever happens to him or her is a resource. All things have been given to us for a purpose, and an artist must feel this more intensely. All that happens to us, including our humiliations, our misfortunes, our embarrassments, all is given [ ]
Referenced by Michael when he was visiting us back in May and I picked it up. It happened to fit well with things I ve already been thinking about such as The Algorithm and whether culture precedes from it or it precedes from culture. Basically, does the algorithm show us what we create or is it [ ]